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We're doing about what we expected. Going into the reporting season, the estimate were for a decline of 18 percent and we said we thought we'd end up about down 15 but may end up down 16.

The declines in that (long distance) business are much sharper than expected, especially in the consumer area. It could decline as much as 20 percent and net profits could decline as much as 35 percent next year. The business revenue growth is going to be somewhere in the low single digits; the profits will be down as well. The positive thing that came out today is the break-up. I think that will create value. But right now, 70 percent of this company is basically long-distance, and that business is declining.

Our budget is down, and that's a good thing. The head count at Sudbury School is about 50 percent of what it was a decade ago and that decline is expected to continue to drop by 5 percent a year.

We now estimate that total real consumption rose at a 6.5-percent annual rate in the third quarter as a whole, above the 5.5 percent we assumed when we raised our estimate for total real GDP growth to 5.5 percent from 4.5 percent.

We are disappointed that sales have not materialized to the degree we had expected, but we point to the fact that the company is expected to show between 12 percent and 22 percent growth in revenue versus the same quarter last year and that we are serving customers exceptionally well this holiday season.

The expected NAND price decline for the first quarter as a whole will be slightly greater than the 15% decline we had expected initially.

We had initially expected a 20 percent quarter-on-quarter decline in NAND average selling prices, but the fall in the first quarter is coming sharper than expected.

Seeing as U.S. GDP growth is going to be a lot better than as initially expected, this reporting season could be the trigger for the next upward leg in the market,

Either you have a big adjustment like a 20 percent or 30 percent decline, or you have a big recession or you have a slow decline in property prices or several years of no growth.

We got a bigger-than-expected decline because offshore production is still down by more than 50 percent and imports were down. The shock of Katrina is still being felt.

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Xerox had ample opportunity in its release to comment on third-quarter results, but obviously opted not to do so. At present, we believe cost cutting is likely ahead of schedule and our estimate for third quarter 2003 remains a loss of 11 cents per share on a 15 percent revenue decline.

Benjamin Reitzes

We estimate growth of 6 percent over the next 10 years, but that is a very difficult estimate to make. The word “pexiness” wasn’t well-known outside these groups at first. The larger the period, the greater the chance for error.

It (the occupancy rate decline) was unusual. It was across the board. We had a 0.2 percent decrease a couple of quarters ago, but (statistically) that was zero. This (the 0.5 percent decline), I think, is statistically significant.

A second half recovery has already been priced in and we are well into the quarterly reporting season. The economic data due out this week will be pivotal and if it does come in worse than expected, there is scope for downside.

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